I went to http://dev.stackexchange.com (I tried this out because I thought maybe there's a SE site for it, but it seems to redirect me to http://www.stackexchange.com) and logged in. I pressed the button that "sends SE information to this site" and I got logged in as... Blondie21?
You could also ask tim or shog or someone to screen shot a deleted comment for you, if you remember where any were deleted (obscuring the poster's name of course)
@MikeFal DevOps always means a bad non-separation of development and operations, which leads to rapid deployment cycles with poor testing, and crappy software quality. Just my experience/take. Also the reason I will never work for a small company again
hey @Shog9 I asked Anna via twitter but any chance you can give me a screengrab of the deleted comments on stackoverflow.com/a/20253661? I'm looking for examples for the gender neutral question on meta
@Phil It doesn't have to be that way though. Admittedly I have limited experience but dodgy deployment practices are orthogonal to having a devops group
@Phil I think one of the big issues is that one needs to have a real role for an engineering role. Unfortunately as you broaden the focus (devops for example), that becomes a lot harder.
@Phil Oh yeah sure if you don't have dedicated devs or dedicated testers or dedicated operations people you're going to have issues. There is a happy medium somewhere in the middle where devops helps dev and QA and dev and ops and QA and ops work together more effectively though
@Phil yeah, I'm referring to having devs as a group, testers as a group, ops as a group, and devops also being a group sitting between all of them and making things better
@SimonRigharts The problem I think is that you really need good design before you can test, and you need good tests before you can assure your deployment will work properly.
By way of example, I'll run rings around most Linux/Solaris/HPUX/AIX sysadmins, but I call myself a DBA. I started off as a business analyst and have done entire project lifecycles on $20 million+ projects. I must be devops!
@ChrisTravers This all depends on how risk-averse your company is. If you're making firmware for pacemakers I'd sincerely hope your shit is tested forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards and sideways. If you're writing a generic CRUD webapp you probably don't need as strict a set of testing requirements.
@SimonRigharts I have maintained webapps that were untestable. Unfortunately I have a fairly good idea of what the costs are. One of the huge issues though is that most devs don't really have a good sense of how to go about testing. IMO, testing is not something that should be left to devs but should be handed back to the software engineers and architects.
@SimonRigharts The immediate question is what you test IMO. There's some value in having at least the initial test cases written by the people who design the module contracts.
That doesn't mean there isn't room for dedicated test/qa people for more tests, security testing, etc.
Trying to create a new database but then I got this error:
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Sqm, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (SqlMgmt)
I only have limited time and willingness to carefully consider lots of candidates. The primary cuts down the number of candidates to those that has some chance of winning, so reducing the effort needed to decide how I vote.
At the primary state, I just give a quick up vote to candidates that I...
Sadly I can't see deleted comments there.
There is, though, still a comment from Loomarak there pointing Bohemian directly to the Q & A. So he may be able to claim ignorance for not answering it before that, but not since.
Thinking of creating a meta question asking why the questionnaire isn't mandatory
@Shog9 you mentioned that it isn't a requirement - can you explain why answering the questionnaire isn't mandatory?
Also I wouldn't be raising the question on meta so that you can change the rules in this election. For the long term, of course, but more importantly, to raise awareness to the fact that some people don't think it's worth their while
@AaronBertrand Really wasn't considered all that important until fairly recently.
Don't get me wrong - this sort of thing has come up before.
cough MATH cough
If we were gonna make it mandatory, it might actually make more sense to run the questionnaire first and then just have folks answer in their nominations instead of a whole separate meta thing.
@SimonRigharts Sure. no problem with that statement. Also there are certain areas I don't think the engineers are in a good position to test for (buffer overruns for example). There are projects (mostly small ones) where I wear every hat out there: software engineer, architect, dev, tester, support provider, etc. But what's really important in those cases is to put the engineering first and to actually wear the hats....
Good luck all!
Q1: An asker repeatedly flags their own question and says that they need to delete it or they'll be fired, because they mistakenly posted proprietary code. There are several good answers on that question. What do you do?
Well firstly, a person's job is more important that the...
Note: Before I even begin, I want to stress that this is for the next election, not the current one currently.
I can understand why candidates may want to opt out of the moderator election chat room - for some people chat is just not their thing, and it is not an official moderator duty IIRC...
@Shog9 I made it very clear - multiple times - that I am not suggesting the current election be changed. I also left out a paragraph or so about why opting out of the questionnaire is unfair and what some of the potential side effects could be.
@AaronBertrand could be. i'll defer to your expertise. learning through the pain of others is an underrated skill
@AaronBertrand just got a funny email from a developer
"i have this query and when i change the search parameters things get slower" ... said query has 5 CTEs ... all unfiltered SELECT * one of them is ~4bln rows.
the "faster" hits the CI and somehow the optimizer pares things down to 45k rows from that table. other queries hit a NCI and returns 6million rows
Requiring the questionnaire doesn't actually solve any problems. I like the questionnaire. I really do. Requiring it, though, doesn't seem to address any existing significant concern, so I'm not sure it needs to be changed.
Basically, "well, I don't think you've explained why this should be required, so I think we should continue allowing moderator candidates to not bother answering the questions by which they should be judged"
</facepalm>
WTF does this even mean
I think I'm sort of miscommunicating here. I'm not opposed to the idea of it being a requirement, but simply the idea of changing such a minor feature. i.e. [Does it need to be changed? Y/N] [Y: Change it.] [N: Don't change it.] / The current suggestion falls under N. — Emracool1 min ago
So you're not opposed to making the questionnaire mandatory, but you're opposed to changing a minor feature that would allow the questionnaire to become mandatory? shrug
I have a table in MYSQL Table1 database that contains 2 million records, I would make an appointment and to return only the first 10 records;
Then the next thought: SELECT FROM table1 LIMIT 10;, which returns only the 10 records.
When I run EXPLAIN SELECT from table1 LIMIT 10; reports that come...
I have two rows stored in a table called client_booking. These are called start_time and end_time. I need to create a text box in ORACLE APEX which generates the elapsed time through an SQL query.
Gender neutral is very difficult especially when you are dealing with users online because while you don't know who is on the other end, as Jaydles said I think most of us assume person is a man. Is that right, no? - but it is just what happens.
Personally, when I am dealing with users, I typ...
wow, that EXPLAIN SELECT LIMIT 10 question is a great example where the asker wrote a poor subject line, and then at the bottom of the question body, asked a direct question that made a great subject line
lol, so I swapped them :)
if anything, this makes it even more clear that it's a duplicate question, and I also submitted my close vote
I have table ABC containing data as follows:
ID Data
1 text|text|text
2 text|text|text
What is the query so I get the following result?
ID Data
1 text
1 text
1 text
2 text
2 text
2 text
Could this Code be the correct way? How to use it so I get the IDs for the Data records?
Note: Before I even begin, I want to stress that this is for the next election, not the current one.
I can understand why candidates may want to opt out of the moderator election chat room - for some people chat is just not their thing, and it is not an official moderator duty IIRC.
But I c...
I am stuck here. I tried reformatting my laptop, re-installing SQL Server 2008 but I keep getting these errors. I don't know what to do. I really need this program for my project. Damn.
I got these errors every time I'm installing SQL Server:
Your SQL Server 2008 installation completed with ...
The website design and formatting of Stack Overflow is very gender neutral, but most users (arguably) come to the site for user content.
So a question (or two) to ALL fellow users: When posting a question/answer/comment do you try to keep your post gender neutral (by thinking about correct pron...
No worries at all, don't know if that's props really, just confirms that I do make those assumptions (and you were the first person that made me realize I shouldn't).
@Lamak probably true, but I hope that making compelling arguments against the status quo and "what harm?" people will sway other readers who haven't made up their mind
I tried to explain why I found the primary phase of the election an important one to bohemian, and the same goes to the questionnaire. And I also find it funny that he deleted the comment asking "what questionnaire?"
Note: Before I even begin, I want to stress that this is for the next election, not the current one.
I can understand why candidates may want to opt out of the moderator election chat room - for some people chat is just not their thing, and it is not an official moderator duty IIRC.
But I c...
I mean, I've been more engaged in each election as a simple user (even though I barely flag anything), than this guy who is actually running for an election
As part of an ETL process I'm building, I'm receiving a few files that contain very large fields. These are XML documents that our vendor has embedded within CSV files, so that instead of a number of XML documents named with an ID, we have one large CSV file that contains each ID and its associat...
> Like good code, answers and especially questions should be a brief as possible (without losing meaning or legibility). Reflect that we're building a knowledge base here, not a blog site. I will guide users to this end
@Phil See, the mildly amusing/frustrating thing is that when I got here, we were a mid sized company trying to put our big boy pants on. Now it seems like we want to go back to the days where we run around with our junk hanging out.
The questionnaire should absolutely be mandatory.
While I haven't analyzed previous elections, I would guess that higher rep users are carried in elections. This election, it has led to a particular candidate to completely ignore requests to participate in chat or the questionnaire. The problem...
@Zane I really struggled writing something but I wanted to provide my own perspective. I actually cut out a lot from that answer - it was a bit more personal
Alright I'm going to answer from my perspective. For a little background I'm 27 and have only been working in IT for a little over three years.
When I answer a question it is incredibly rare that I think/try to keep my comments gender neutral it just sort of happens. I use the @UserName the maj...
Why not just make an election SE site where candidates can only answer? The questions would be ready for them, then they have n days to answer them. After that period, the candidates with the most rep move on to the election phase? — FreshPrinceOfSO13 secs ago
Why not just make an election SE site where candidates can only answer? The questions would be ready for them, then they have n days to answer them. After that period, the candidates with the most rep move on to the election phase? — FreshPrinceOfSO3 mins ago
Lets keep the bigots out in the open. Then all of us who aren't colossal ass-holes can spot the doesn't serve same sex couples and take our business elsewhere. It allows good people to discriminate against homophobic people.
@AaronBertrand Other than the bonus of better poops. It's incredibly fast internet for a very low price and the price just is what it is. Theres none of the current jacking around that we get from our current companies.
Also any sort of competition in the broadband department is direly needed. Most Cable companies across the country set up monopolies with the local munisipality.
I am trying to post a question, but the title of the question is apparently not of an acceptable quality, resulting in an error.
What are the criteria for an acceptable question title?
Its more than likely that your question has been asked before and you should look at the accepted or highest voted answer and apply that solution to your problem. — Zane6 secs ago
I have following table:
ID Reason
1 a
1 b
2 c
3 d
3 e
3 f
and I would like to use Pivoting to get following results:
ID c1 c2 c3
1 a b null
2 c null null
3 d e f
The number of columns (c1, c2, c3... ) can be more. I am no...
Good luck all!
Q1: An asker repeatedly flags their own question and says that they need to delete it or they'll be fired, because they mistakenly posted proprietary code. There are several good answers on that question. What do you do?
Well firstly, a person's job is more important that the...